Couldnt find any weapons, found a lvl 3 coyote on the highway. Me being a level 2 I decided to fist fight the coyote and was suprised to find out you cant injure somethign 1 level higher than you with fists. Which tell sme the diff. of power from one level to the next is WAY too high. Speaking fo which, I would sugest GETTING high to even try this filthy beta because you’re gonna need to be somewhat numbed to anger for it.

The chat window was insane. Instead of placing the name and then text like
Larry: “Hey everybody, I hate you all”
it comes out like
NEW PLAYER: lvl 2 larry – Hey everybody I hate you all

I didnt find a single thing about this game I liked OTHER than the cinematic “which i slike ages long” after the tutorial had some funny dialouge. Again, spelling is horrible.

All in all I would be angry at anyone who bought this game. 0 out of 10

My experiences were mixed. It’s ok, but has a lot of issues and looks vulnerable to exploits and hacks. It has it’s strengths too though.

It’s really rather late to have an NDA, since the fileplanet stress test means all sorts of people can try it out and lots of them are finding it’s not the game for them — thus the majority of those who feel free to give their opinion didn’t like it, while those who love it to death and don’t want the slightest chance of being kicked out of the beta are mostly staying mum.

Probably. Theoretically. Covering-my-assedly.

To address one thing: “which has reportedly been content complete since last October”. I can’t personally believe that statement from what I have seen in the game. Why, you ask? Here’s why: there are whole bases and points of interest off of the beaten path, which I discovered only having gotten to level 4 at this point, which have no mob spawns whatsoever. I found a really sweet looking base that I expected to be populated with mobs, possibly of special significance, but there wasn’t anything there but one resource node. There are 3 giant cell towers that can be seen for miles in the distance (at one or two starting towns, there are around 8 starting towns depending on your focus: crafting, combat, and something else), naturally I was attracted to them, went out to investigate, found it like the cool base, totally devoid of npcs aside from wandering snakes and such.

If the bugs are cleared up by launch, the aforementioned unpopulated areas made populous, and a major tightening of the combat system, I think it could be seen as one of the better quality niche mmos on the market. Let me make this clear, this is definately a niche mmo, there is no way you are going to gain mass appeal by making your game require thought, time, and general hand-eye coordination (not to mention the total lack of fantasy crap.).

In response to the major bug with the tutorial-thing that people have mentioned: so far I’ve gathered from the veteran testers that it didnt have many problems until the FP stress test happened, among many other bugs, which is a good thing really. None the less, it is still a huge bug.

I’m still waiting for a Mad Max/Road Warrior IP MMO to be developed, please, someone make it.

PS- I don’t hate fantasy themed MMOs on principle, I played many of them, including WoW, for many years. I am quite simply tired of them, their generic-ness and combat systems, among other things, but that’s a long and different story.

Played for about 20 minutes – enough to reach a glitched door in the tutorial which I couldn’t open.

My connection then dropped and I have felt no compulsion to log in and try again yet, which seems a little churlish given that I have been jonesing for a decent, gritty, non-fantasy based MMORPG for some time now.

The controls were all ooky.

I have never played a MMORPG in god-mode before :-)

There will be a wiki with 5 or 6 builds you have to have to do certain things optimally.

Autistic gamers ruin every thing ;_;